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Abuse of Migrant Workers In UAE


Updated: 15th April, 2006

Migrant workers comprise nearly 90 percent of the workforce in the private sector in the UAE. Workers are denied even basic rights, confiscate their passports and residence permits or deliberately let residence permits expire, restricting their freedom of movement and ability to report mistreatment. many of them are silently accept the exploitation and deprivation of their rights because they view themselves as powerless and have little recourse for labour abuses.

View some facts in the following scenes:

Scene 1: Dubai is a jungle of towers. Towers of glass and steel lined up in rows along the main highways are emblematic of the power of a king. Billions of dollars are being pumped into showpiece schemes, malls and hotels and each complete with helipads and rooftop swimming pools. An ostentatious lifestyle of Arabs.

Scene 2: On the outskirts of the city, where the desert begins, are the squalid barracks where the workers live, thousand upon thousand of them crowded into tiny rooms, mostly from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, trying to get some rest after hours of back-breaking work in the scorching heat of the desert.

Scene 3: "If they pay us, we'll go home alive. If they don't pay us, we'll go home dead. " The Washington Post is reporting graphic details about the exploitation of  UAE migrant workers, (a feature about 'Tales of Paradise Lost'!) who work on $4 to $7 a day. "Either they pay us or send our corpses home," repeats Imtiaz Ahmed Siddiq, one of the South Asian labourers, who has made the trek to the court more than 50 times since last year.

Scene 4: Location Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, home to an enormous construction site dominated by a tower, UAE's most high profile mega-project, the Burj Dubai Tower.

Asian workers angered by low salaries and mistreatment smashed cars and offices in a riot that interrupted work on what is meant to be the world's tallest skyscraper, which, when complete, will be the tallest building in the world at more than 160 storeys.  The Burj Dubai tower is expected to be completed in 2008.

The violence, a couple of thousand rioting workers chased and assaulted security officers, broke into offices, smashed computers and files, and destroyed about two dozen cars and construction machines caused an estimated $1 million damage, illustrated the growing unrest among foreign workers who are the linchpin of Dubai's breathtaking building boom.

Scene 6: (Climax) Behind Gold’s Glitter: Lack of labour rights, wanton abuses combined with poverty, labourers desperate to make a fast buck are quite literally playing with their lives; they rush into speeding traffic on busy roads hoping their dependants will inherit the diya (blood money) if they are knocked down!.                         

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The United States and the European Union should not sign free trade deals with the UAE until it ends its mistreatment of foreign workers.

One of the world’s largest construction booms is feeding off of workers in Dubai, but they’re treated as less than human. It’s no surprise that some workers have started rioting in protest. What’s surprising is that the government of the UAE is doing nothing to solve the problem.
       Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch (HRW)
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